National Education Management

NATIONAL EDUCATION MANAGEMENT Abstract National Education Management is very important for the progress of education in Indonesia. Because without this management, education will not improve. Decision Making in National Education Management is very important because it will determine the good or bad or success of an education management. Good decision making is certainly based on many things that can make an education management here successful and make the people in Indonesia prosperous in education. A. INTRODUCTION 1. Background Decision Making is of course in various things. One of them is in National Education Management. We need to know that National Education Management is an effort to overcome the negative impacts of globalization and direct globalization in a more positive direction for the advancement of education in Indonesia. In deciding something, especially in National Education Management, we definitely need a decision. Decisions that are made and taken cannot be arbitrary because they will affect the future of education itself. We must know what is good and what is not for education in Indonesia in order to determine the decisions to be taken. 2. Objectives The purpose of Decision Making in National Education Management is so that the education that we are currently and will be undergoing runs well and achieves the desired goals. And also to facilitate the plans that will be implemented, such as Decision Making to prioritize education in remote villages. B. CONTENTS 1. Definition of Educational Management In the book entitled "Educational Management" by Mohamad Mustari on pages 1 to 4 explains that management is a process in planning to achieve certain goals. Educational Management is a branch of science that is relatively young, so it is not surprising that many people do not know it. In the 1975 curriculum mentioned in the Curriculum Implementation Guidelines III3, both for Elementary Schools, Middle Schools, and High Schools, management is all joint efforts to utilize all resources (personnel and materials) effectively and efficiently to support the achievement of educational goals. Educational management is an activity or series of activities in the form of a process of managing the cooperative efforts of a group of people who are members of an educational organization, to achieve previously determined educational goals, so that they are effective and efficient. Furthermore, Mulyani A. Nurhadi (1983) emphasized the characteristics or understanding of Educational Management contained in the definition as follows: 1) Management is an activity or series of activities carried out from, by, and for humans. 2) The series of activities is a process of managing a series of educational activities that are unique and complex in nature that are different from the company's goal of obtaining maximum profit; the purpose of this educational activity cannot be separated from the general educational goals and the educational goals that have been set by a nation. 3) The management process is carried out together by a group of people who are members of an organization so that its activities must be maintained in order to create harmonious working conditions without sacrificing the human elements involved in the educational activities. 4) The process is carried out in order to achieve a previously determined goal, which in this case includes general goals (general goal scale) and those that are carried out by each educational organization (specific goal scale) 5) The management process is carried out so that its goals can be achieved effectively and efficiently. 2. The Meaning of Educational Management in Schools In the book entitled "Educational Management in Schools" by B. Suryosubroto on page 15 explains that educational management in schools is given meaning from several perspectives as follows: 1) Educational Management as cooperation to achieve educational goals. 2) Educational Management as a process to achieve educational goals. 3) Educational Management as a system. 4) Educational Management as an effort to utilize resources to achieve educational goals. 5) Educational Management as management leadership. 6) Educational Management as a decision-making process. 7) Educational Management as a communication activity. 8) Educational Management in the narrow sense as administrative activities in schools. 3. Humanistic Education Plannning and Management Process In the book entitled "National Education Management" by H.A.R Tilaar on pages 4 to 6 about Globalization, Humanization, Democratization and their Implications in National Education Management, it is stated that the rapid informatization process due to technological advances is increasingly making the horizon of life on the planet earth wider and at the same time the world is shrinking. National development planning, including national education planning, must be oriented towards an open and flexible planning system. This means that there needs to be a shift from bureaucratic planners who have stereotypes of power towards planning that is directed at real human needs. This is what is called participatory planning which requires the participation of the community, parents, and even students, in achieving national education goals. In other words, Indonesian people are the center and starting point of the national education planning and management process. If "Indonesian people" are made the center and starting point, then this cannot be other than adjusting the education plan to the diversification of community needs, adjusting to the real needs of the community and to the quality of education that supports improving the quality of life. C. CONCLUSION From the explanation above, I can conclude that national education management is very important because not only is education a basic need for Indonesian people, but it is also one of the dynamics of development. Therefore, education management must be a subsystem of the national development management system. National Education Management as a whole is still centralistic so that it does not encourage democratization and decentralization of education implementation. D. IMPLICATIONS I hope that education management in Indonesia can be better and more advanced so that this country is not backward or left behind by other countries. I also hope that for now and in the future, leaders can make decisions that prioritize education first, because there are still many areas that have not received proper education. E. RECOMMENDATIONS I suggest that in making decisions in the context of National Education Management, it is further improved so that education in Indonesia is evenly distributed. And also because at least education in big cities has improved, I suggest that leaders start focusing on education in remote areas where access to schools is very difficult. However, if leaders focus more on improving education in remote areas such as road access, teacher quality, facilities or buildings and also infrastructure, I am sure that education in Indonesia will be more advanced and better.